Gjun Resolves Messaging Server Affliction with FalconStor Continuous Data Protection
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Tuesday August 22, 8:30 am ET
Taiwan's Largest IT Education Company Reduces Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery Time from Days to Minutes
MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2006--FalconStor Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), the leading developer of proven data protection solutions, today announced that Gjun, one of Taiwan's largest IT education companies, has implemented FalconStor's continuous data protection (CDP) solution for Microsoft Exchange to safeguard the 24x7 operations of Gjun's messaging servers.
Gjun had relied on conventional tape backup, with a standby server for redundancy. In times of disaster recovery, the education company was vulnerable, having to rely on manual intervention from its IT staff while not being able to completely validate the usability of the backup tape. Through internal testing, Gjun found that the recovery of its complete Exchange server system and all its data took IT administrators an entire day -- an unacceptable situation. To rectify this issue and the instability of its e-mail server, Gjun turned to FalconStor's CDP solution for Exchange.
"Gjun places high demands on any system being considered for purchase. During the selection process, we demanded tests on the actual machine and designed some simulation scripts of real-world events, thus gradually testing the feasibility of the candidate solutions," said Win Wu, IT group manager at Gjun. "Choosing FalconStor CDP proved to be the right decision. It is now close to six months since the implementation, and there has not been even one crash in that time. We found that FalconStor CDP provided all the benefits of conventional tape backup and cluster redundancy in one unit, which suited our requirements perfectly."
Gjun's IT staff, used to work overtime during holidays and weekends to complete lengthy backups so that users were not impacted during production hours. Gjun was impressed with the ease of installation and the overall performance of the FalconStor CDP solution. During testing, Gjun pulled the plug on its Exchange server and tested recovery from another machine in order to assess the feasibility of its disaster recovery plan. With FalconStor CDP, recovery and restoration of Gjun's Exchange server was reduced from days to minutes.
"Educational institutions are finding FalconStor's continuous data protection a valuable asset in keeping the uptime of their messaging data server for students, staff, and faculty," said Alex Jiang, FalconStor vice president of sales and marketing for Asia Pacific. "For Gjun, FalconStor's continuous data protection addressed the significant issue of downtime, resulting in an ease of burden for its entire administration staff."
The outstanding performance of FalconStor CDP for Exchange has led Gjun to extend the scope of FalconStor CDP protection to the company's business management system SQL server, to protect student and lecturer information, class management records, and other databases. Currently Gjun is working on implementing and configuring the FalconStor CDP solution for its enterprise information portal and knowledge management system. Gjun is also considering further plans to bring all of its IT servers under the umbrella of FalconStor CDP's protection.
About Gjun
Gjun is widely accepted as Taiwan's number one IT education organization. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Gjun has grown into a company with close to 100 branch schools, a staff of 800, and an IT system worth over 100 million NTD ($3 million). For the further information, please visit pcschool.com.tw. |
